{"product_id":"stitching-identities-in-a-free-trade-zone-gender-and-politics-in-sri-lanka-paperback-softback-9780812221121","title":"Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone; Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812221121","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender and Politics in Sri Lanka\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSandya Hewamanne (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812221121\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 March 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 10 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.452 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A first-rate ethnography that will appeal not only to professional social scientists but to everyone concerned about the impact of global capitalism on the lives of ordinary people, especially women in the developing world.\" (Gananath Obeyesekere, Princeton University) \"Hewamanne succeeds in meeting her primary objective, which is to tell us the story of these women in a way that we can see and partially apprehend the complexity of their lives through her writing. Few ethnographies are as passionate, confident, intimate, and evocative as this one.\" (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Ethnologist\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthropologist Sandya Hewamanne spent time in a Sri Lankan free trade zone (FTZ) working and living among the workers to learn about their lives. \"They were poor women from rural areas,\" Hewamanne writes, \"who migrated to do garment work in transnational factories of a global assembly line. Their difficult work routines and sad living conditions have been examined in detail. When I was with them I often wondered whether anyone noticed the smiles, winks, smirks, gestures, tones of voice, the movies they saw, or the songs they sang.\" Hewamanne deftly weaves theories of identity, globalization, and cultural politics throughout her detailed accounts of the workers' efforts to negotiate ever shifting roles and expectations of gender, class, and sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e By analyzing how these workers claim political subjectivity, Hewamanne's \u003ci\u003eStitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone\u003c\/i\u003e challenges conventional notions about women at the bottom of the global economy. The book offers a fascinating journey through the vibrant subaltern universe of Sri Lankan female migrant workers, from the FTZ factory shop floor to boarding houses, from urban movie theaters to temples and beaches and back to their native rural villages. \u003ci\u003eStitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone\u003c\/i\u003e captures the spirit with which women confront power and violence through everyday poetics and politics, exploring how female workers construct themselves as different while investigating this difference as the space where deep anxieties and ambivalences over notions of nation, modernity, and globalization get played out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Nation, Modernity, and Female Morality\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. On the Shop Floor\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Loving Daughters and Politically Active Workers\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Politics of Everyday Life\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Performing Disrespectability\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. FTZ Clothes and Home Clothes\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Made in Sri Lanka: Globalization and the Politics of Location\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Cautious Voices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555687231768,"sku":"9780812221121","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/stitching-identities-in-a-free-trade-zone-gender-and-politics-in-sri-lanka-paperback-softback-9780812221121","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}